Ask HN: Who's Hiring October 2013
It's that time again
Also, does this mean this thread is invalid, then?
Top Hat (https://tophat.com). We build software for The Modern Educator.
Python, JS, RabbitMQ, AWS, Backbone, Real Time, Big Data, EdTech, Dent in the universe kind of stuff.
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Looking for a brilliant developer:
Does doin’ your thing in Django take you to your happy place? Does coding in JavaScript feel better than Christmas morning? Does programming in JavaScript bring you more satisfaction than rainbows and puppies combined? Read on, you Maniac Hack.
If you’ve been to university, you understand the nut Top Hat is trying to crack. Your professor starts to talk, and you really do have every intention of listening. But within about five minutes, your good intentions fly out the window and you begin to surf Facebook, catch some Zz’s, or if you’re feeling really ambitious start working on a problem set for a completely unrelated class. When you join our team, you’ll be working on classroom interaction software and help higher education find its mojo!
Your work will touch hundreds of thousands of paying customers (300,000 and growing every day). Plus, you’ll get to ship code on a weekly basis. We only officially launched a little over two years ago, but we’re already profitable and are growing like crazy! Lucky for you, we’re small but mighty. That means you get to touch everything—front-end, back-end, database code—whatever your little hacker heart desires! And what’s more? Everything you touch will be yours. Well, kind of. We follow the “Facebook approach,” meaning we give developers complete ownership of features.
The Fabulous Life of the Top Hat Developer comes with other sweet perks too. Every fifth week is hack-week, where you and your fellow developers get to spend a week working on pet projects. There’s also lots of free deliciousness. What’s up catered breakfast and unlimited snacks and drinks? Oh, and did we mention StarCraft throw-downs at lunch?
https://tophat.com/about/jobs Or email: matt [at] tophat dot com
Do you live and breathe the world of football? Know what makes a good story? Do you enjoy building engaging conversations that leave a lasting impression through blog posts, Twitter, and Facebook? If you’re nodding your head positively to all these questions, we want to talk to you!
You'll get to work in a tight and growing team of smart people working at the heart of the Silicon roundabout to promote a really exciting new product. You'll work directly with the co-founders and will gain invaluable experience helping an early-stage startup grow the hardest thousand users it ever will.
You must be passionate about football, enjoy watching as many games as you can, and be an confident communicator with your finger on the pulse of the game. You must also have a strong understanding of social platforms and communication.
We're happy for you to work remotely and the role offers a subscription to all sports TV channels and any transport costs.
London, UK - FULLTIME PYTHON DEVELOPER CrowdScores: https://crowdscores.co.uk/jobs/
We are looking for an exceptional person to grow our backend team. You should have strong experience in Python and love writing readable, idiomatic code. You will get the the opportunity to work with exciting technologies and large datasets in a real-time environment. We’re currently transitioning our server stack to an SOA built primarily with Nginx, Python, Django, Postgres, and MongoDB glued together with RabbitMQ and running on AWS. In this role you will certainly have the opportunity to influence the technological choices.
Please contact jobs@crowdscores.co.uk and read more at https://crowdscores.co.uk/jobs/
At Kira Talent, we help employers spot top talent earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.
A bit about us:
* we’re a small team (you’d be #12), based in the heart of downtown Toronto
* we’re well funded (we just raised a $2M seed round) and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company
* we’re hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, analytics
* we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design
* every single one of our developers have committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour
* building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming
* re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS
* designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike
* presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team internally
If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
http://skimbox.co/ At Skimbox, we're building a new kind of email client.
http://skimbox.co/architecture/
A client that is actually smooth and lets you get out of your inbox. A client that is backed by sophisticated AI. A client that was written with love, sweat, and engineering best practices.
FULL STACK ENGINEER:/ Is scaling huge systems your game? Do you love cooking up your own chef recipes? How about working directly on our systems and applications while you’re at it? We’re looking for DevOps folks who know how to run distributed systems, scale them, and write a little code too.
MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER:/ Want to figure out what emails people really want to see? Want to teach a computer how to do it? We’re looking for clever folks who can create a self-improving AI to separate the proverbial email wheat from the chafe. This requires knowing how to write performant, scalable, distributed ML logic that operates on very large datasets.
Email: hr@skimbox.co
Help us make weddings awesome for the hundreds of millions of people who attend weddings every year. We are a small team of engineers and designers that has made waves in the last year with our mobile apps for couples and guests. We’ve grown fast and Wedding Party is now used at hundreds of thousands of weddings a year. We’ve been featured on the AppStore for the last five consecutive weeks. There are fun design, product, and scaling challenges ahead.
We are looking for:
-Rails developer
-Android developer
-iOS developer
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of one of our major product platforms
- Be able to iterate quickly over UX interactions and designs
- Be obsessive over details and be ready to ship great code
Requirements:
-Experience working on interesting projects
-Be prepared to learn and teach
-Experience building products with millions of users a plus
email: jobs@weddingpartyapp.com
We would welcome 1-2 additions to our small core search engineering team. This team works across our full architecture (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/architecture) though does more back-end and data algo than front-end and dev-ops, which are primarily handled elsewhere.
Previous search experience or extensive experience with our particular architecture is not necessary, though this is not a junior level position.
Please note our hiring process is a bit different. If you need to immediate full-time employment this process probably doesn't work for you because we usually contract for a couple months first (paid).
We're a small team building a solution to the problem of how to find appropriate post-acute care. After surgery, patients often need to transition to a care facility to complete their recovery. Right now, deciding which facility to transition to involves a printed spreadsheet and lots of phone calls. We're using technology to make that process faster and more pleasant for the patient and the hospital.
We're looking for a person with an eye for design who can write clean, standards-compliant html and css that will look good in ie7+ (hospitals aren't on the bleeding edge of browser tech). Javascript chops would be great, but aren't required.
We are currently working out of the Paypal Start Tank in Boston. Feel free to reach out at hn@careporthealth.com.
Are you a full stack developer with a passion for building and managing large scale applications?
We use javascript in our full stack with Nodejs in the backend and a custom framework on the front-end with MongoDB for the database.
You are: - Smart - Able to breakdown and communicate complex ideas and problems clearly - Driven by finding elegant solutions to solve business needs - Wanting to tackle problems of scale and large data generation/aggregation - Eager to learn something new to solve a problem you’ve not seen before - Happy to get involved and dive in when things go turbo
We're based in London, UK
charley@onscroll.com
We are an automated trading firm looking for a QA tester to make our software more robust.
You will need strong scripting skills (we use Python and bash) as well as strong communication skills.
You don't need to have worked in the finance industry, but you must have experience with automated testing tools.
To apply, go through our Stack Overflow Careers post:
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39811/qa-tester-for-a-...
I got here via Stack Overflow myself, so feel free to send a link to your profile if you have one.
We are a cross-platform communication platform (phone, web, mobile) for patients and doctors that has handled hundreds of thousands of calls for our highly-engaged paying doctors offices.
We are looking for a founding engineer to help us expand the capability and reach of our platform in terms of features, stability, and rich video communication. Our goal is to virtualize medical care through our platform.
Languages: Ruby on Rails, Obj-C, Java. We run on Asterisk and are hosted by RackSpace.
email jordan @ ringadoc .com
We specialize in creating products and consulting services for the Financial Services Industry. The principals of Blue Sage have installed mortgage and home equity lending platforms for 6 out of the top 10 lenders of the past 25 years.
We're a small startup looking to add a passionate full-stack web developer to our team. Our stack consists of Groovy/Grails, Java, JavaScript, Ext JS, MySQL, and Tomcat. We're looking for smart, talented, friendly developers that can get stuff done.
Contact us at domjc@bluesageusa.com
www.cbinsights.com/jobs
Bootstrapped to 7-figure subscription revenue business. Building the rating agency of the innovation economy. National Science Foundation-backed
Looking for
- full stack devs
- tech industry analysts (a Nate Silver of tech)
- product adoption manager
Among others